AMD Radeon RX 550 vs NVIDIA GeForce MX350

Compare AMD Radeon RX 550 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce MX350, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

621 points

918 points

47% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

15 FPS

21 FPS

5 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

14 FPS

0 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

16 FPS

2 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

14 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

10 FPS

11 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

1190 points

1229 points

3% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

14002 points

0.94% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

13872 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

15900 points

14% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

13882 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

12342 points

13618 points

10% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

16237 points

22% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

13257 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1100 MHz

47% significantly higher core clock speed

747 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1183 MHz

26% slightly higher boost clock speed

937 MHz

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

64 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

112 GB/s

99% significantly higher memory bandwidth

56.06 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

50 W

20 W

150% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

18.93 Gigapixels/s

26% slightly higher pixel rate

14.99 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

37.86 Gigatexels/s

26% slightly higher texture rate

29.98 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

512

640

25% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

Identical

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

307th of 586

269th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 500 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 April

2020 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.6

Radeon RX 550 vs GeForce MX350 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the GeForce MX350 beats the Radeon RX 550 in gaming performance.

In our comparison, the Radeon RX 550 has a significantly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture. In addition, the Radeon RX 550 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

In addition, the GeForce MX350 has a significantly lower TDP at 20 W when compared to the Radeon RX 550 at 50 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce MX350 over the Radeon RX 550.